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Series Editor: Peter Calow, Department of Zoology, University of
Sheffield, England The main aim of this series will be to
illustrate and to explain the way organisms 'make a living' in
nature. At the heart of this - their functional biology - is the
way organisms acquire and then make use of resources in metabolism,
movement, growth, reproduction, and so on. These processes will
form the fundamental framework of all the books in the series. Each
book will concentrate on a particular taxon (species, family, class
or even phylum) and will bring together information on the form,
physiology, ecology and evolutionary biology of the group. The aim
will be not only to describe how organisms work, but also to
consider why they have come to work in that way. By concentration
on taxa which are well known, it is hoped that the series will not
only illustrate the success of selection, but also show the
constraints imposed upon it by the physiological, morphological and
developmental limitations of the groups. Another important feature
of the series will be its organismic orientation. Each book will
emphasize the importance of functional integration in the day
to-day lives and the evolution of organisms. This is crucial since,
though it may be true that organisms can be considered as
collections of gene determined traits, they nevertheless interact
with their environment as integrated wholes and it is in this
context that individual traits have been subjected to natural
selection and have evolved.
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